. The science of railways . EVAL AND Mankind rested content for ages, making littleprogress. The last sixty years have wroughtgreater changes than the preceding five thou-sand. The war chariots of ancient times were alsoused for carrying passengers and on they were used in the great races ofGreece and Rome. Of all the sports of ancienttimes chariot racing was the most splendid andthe most popular. The people of medieval times were scarcelymore enlightened than the ancients. To be sure,they no longer exposed the hopelessly sick bythe wayside, hoping that some passer-by mightsu
. The science of railways . EVAL AND Mankind rested content for ages, making littleprogress. The last sixty years have wroughtgreater changes than the preceding five thou-sand. The war chariots of ancient times were alsoused for carrying passengers and on they were used in the great races ofGreece and Rome. Of all the sports of ancienttimes chariot racing was the most splendid andthe most popular. The people of medieval times were scarcelymore enlightened than the ancients. To be sure,they no longer exposed the hopelessly sick bythe wayside, hoping that some passer-by mightsuggest a remedy. Nor did thej light fires to drive awaypestilentialmiasmas, asin the daysof were,however,as absurdin otherthings, butnothing that we know of the ancients exceeds in gro-tesqueness or horror the burning of witches inthe eighteenth century, or the persecution ofmen for religious beliefs in our day. The peopleof the medieval age were scarcely less savagethan the Thracians of ancient times, nor were. MYTHOLOGICAL FORMS OF CARRIAGE. 493 their rulers hardly less oppressive than the Assy-rian kings. Until the nineteenth century progress in car-riage building was retarded by poor roads, thenarrow streets of cities, the poverty of the peo-ple, the general insecurity that existed and thelack of an exalted idea. Extended travel wasimpossible in the classical and medieval on land was light and confined to neigh-borhoods. On the water it was more extended.
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